No doubt Nawaz to be sent behind bars: Ahsan

KARACHI: Federal Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Monday claimed that there was no doubt left now that former premier Mian Nawaz Sharif would be sent behind bars but claimed that he had decided to face whatever be the consequences for a ‘great cause’.

“Do you still doubt that he would not be sent behind bars? But let me tell you one thing very clearly, he has returned, leaving behind his wife in London, who is fighting cancer, to face the consequences for his great cause”, Ahsan Iqbal said while talking to The News at the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) on Monday.

Replying to a query whether Mian Nawaz Sharif would be sent to jail or he would be ‘house arrested’ in case of punishment from the accountability court, Ahsan Iqbal maintained that Mian Nawaz Sharif would face ‘whatever the law requires’, saying no special treatment or favour was being sought by the former premier.

“Mian Nawaz is bravely facing the situation and is ready to face all the consequences for his great cause for bringing a positive change in Pakistan. He is not looking for any undue favour from anybody”, the interior minister maintained.

He said nothing could be more difficult than leaving behind an ailing wife, who had serious disease like cancer and return home to face the courts and fight the legal battle and claimed that Mian Nawaz Sharif and his colleagues were ‘prepared’ for all kinds of situation.

Later, talking to newsmen, he said that ‘a few decisions’ could not derail the country from its path towards prosperity and claimed that the country was moving in the positive direction despite recent ups and downs.

Terming the ongoing political turmoil as ‘T20 and T10’ matches, he said sit-ins, protests and the decisions like ‘sending the prime minister home’ were taking Pakistan towards political instability and suggested that economic prosperity could only be achieved when all the institutions would unanimously decide that they would not take the country towards ‘anarchy’.